Primary type information:
Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Salata & Borowiec, 2018a: 4). Primary type locality: neotype Georgia: Tbilisi, Tbilisi Botanical Garden, 429 m., 41.68764N, 44.80579E, 18.vii.2015 (S. Salata). Primary type depository: MNHW.
Type notes:
1) Original syntype data: Georgia (“Kavkaz”): Tiflis, Mushtaid Garden, vii. and viii., 1899 and 1900 (K.A. Satunin), ZMUM (lost) (Dlussky et al., 1990: 212). 2) Salata & Borowiec, 2018a: 4, cite a further 22 workers, 7 queens, 2 males from the same series as the neotype, deposited in DBET, MHNG, MSNG, NHMB.